And obviously, you will have to repeat these tests on:14) Different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux, and Mac15) Different browsers (with different versions) like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

There are many free and paid cross-browser testing tools available in the market. And you need to select the browser compatibility tool depending upon your needs. If cross-browser testing is a critical part of your web project then you must allocate some considerable time, resources and budget for testing your website on different web browsers. Paid cross-browser testing tools can also be a good option for projects having browser dependent functionality. But for most of the projects, free cross browser testing tools are sufficient to verify cross-browser functionality.

Check out below list of all cross-browser testing tools available online for the testing website in multiple browsers:

Free Cross Browser Testing Tools

Description: Test your website on 1500+ real desktop and mobile browsers. Interactively test and debug on live remote devices, view your website on multiple browsers at once by taking automated, or run automated using Selenium, Appium, or your other favourite frameworks. Agile teams can test faster with parallel testing and integrations with CI tools like Jenkins.

Description: The Spoon Browser Sandbox allows you to use almost all the web browsers without installing on your machine. You can run all popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera on your machine directly from the web. (Note: Currently Internet Explorer is removed temporarily from the list of this sandbox)

Spoon Browser Sandbox is a free service currently supporting most of the browsers.

Description: This is a free online browser compatibility check tool to test website on almost all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Just select the Internet Explorer version from the drop-down list and put your URL to start rendering the website. You can instantly verify the screen-shot of the page under test.

There is also an “IE NetRenderer” Firefox add-on available that allows you to render the web page that you are currently reading.

Description: A Firefox and Chrome add-on to simulate IE browse with a single click of a button. This is the best tool for software testers and developers since you can easily view how your web page is displayed in the Internet Explorer with just one click using Firefox or Chrome browsers. Unfortunately, this add-on is not available for Firefox 6.0 and its above versions. But again it is a good tool to quickly start your testing on Internet Explorer when you have either Firefox or Google Chrome browsers.

Description: There are many options available online if you want to check the browser compatibility on Internet Explorer versions. IE tester is one of those options that allows you to test your website on multiple Internet Explorer versions at the same time using one application.

Description: Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview free cross browser testing software allows you to test and debug the layout issues across different IE browsers and platforms. You can check the websites in different browsers simultaneously. Also, check how a page renders in a browser and compare it with the other standard screen-shots you have.

Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer shows your web pages rendered in Internet Explorer 6 and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine.

Currently, the beta version of SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is available for free download.

If you can’t rely on these free online cross-browser testing tools then using Virtual Desktop is the best solution for you. Using Virtual machine you can simulate the live environment for multiple browsers and different operating systems. You can use virtual machine software or set up a virtual machine on your office network with different operating system images and browsers which can be accessed remotely for browser compatibility testing.

Paid Cross Browser Testing Tools

This is an automated browser compatibility testing tool used to test a website and its elements in multiple browsers. You can use this service to test a website and all web pages for layout and scripting errors.

You can preview the web pages across multiple versions of Internet Explorer (Windows), Firefox (Windows and Mac OS X), Safari (Mac OS X), and Chrome (Windows). You can quickly view full screen-shots with multiple view options and customizable test settings. You can also test a web page content by zooming particular sections and comparing those with different browser screen-shots for alignment and other layout issues.

BrowserCam is a paid online service that allows you to view your web pages across different platforms and browsers, either by automatically taking the screen-shot or manually navigating web pages in different browsers. A free trial is available for 200 screen captures in a day.

The browserseal cross-browser testing tool allows you to capture an image of your website under different browsers with a single click of a mouse. You can navigate images to spot layout and UI issues. Browserseal tool support almost all major versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

Free Trial version of Browserseal is also available, limited to two browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and one screen-shot per session.

Test your website live on different operating systems and browsers. You just need to login to Cross Browser Testing platform, select operating system, browser and start testing your website for Ajax, JavaScript and flash functionality. You can also check your website design using automated screen-shot tool to view website’s design across every browser. Free trial of this cross-browser testing software is available for one week.

Cloud Testing tool allows you to check website look and feel and the functionality of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. Opera and Google Chrome browsers on real operating systems in the cloud.

Update: Many testers find screen capture browser testing little time consuming to test multiple pages. The solution to this is using Interactive Cross Browser Testing tools.

There are some tools like Browserling and BrowserTap for interactive cross-browser testing.

Browserling: It’s a LIVE Cross Browser Testing tool to test your website on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

One more on the list:

15) Rapise

There are many free and paid cross-browser testing tools available in the market. Tools range from automated software testing tools to tools that will combine multiple testing tools, which will speed up the QA process.

Conclusion

As of now, you should have a clear idea of many free and paid cross-browser testing tools available online. Obviously, selection of a good cross-browser testing tool depends on your requirement as each browser compatibility checking tool comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Which cross-browser testing tools/methods you use to test browser compatibility? If you have your own way of testing browser compatibility, please let us know in the comments section below.

thanks Poorab Actually it took me almost 4 hours to compile this list. I personally used most of the free tools and tried free trial versions of paid tools. So no doubt this is the best comprehensive list to check for cross browser testing tools.

Getting browser data from Google analytic can work to some extent. But it’s always safer to cross check website in all major browsers available in market.

@ jebb All tools come with their own advantages and disadvantages. It depends on individual requirements whether to rely on those or not. I agree for in-depth browser compatibility tests, free tool is not a good choice.

When you want to check more than just how the page renders and look at static JPGs of it, for example testing JavaScript functionality then there is NO substitute, certainly in the case of IE, for VMWare images for each copy. For other browsers such as Opera and Firefox then side by side installs are straight forward without the need for VMware images – unless of course you’re also testing other OSs…

Good Good & Very Good article, but its copied, because i have already read this 5 months ago, & now u just copy edited it & then pasted.

sorry sir i m not criticize,just sharing my experience & now i do not remember that link :(

one thing more u can use above tools very well but these are not 100% reliable,because u have to manually check each & every page(putting URL). so i think manual testing is much better than all above tools. Thank You

@Vijay: Man You seem very clever….lol But finally i need your help…currently i m working on a downloading portal with strong SEO & content…plz help me how to test a website which having a 100% influence of SEO..& how to test this kind of site..Manual or Automation.

Have you looked at Selenium? I’m not sure if it is truly valuable as I have only used it with Firefox, but I would think that if you could output that script, you could tweak it to run with other browsers. I use it for Sanity checks ALL the time.

My 2 cents in this forum. Appriciate the effort of compiling the details. Evenif it was copied, I don’t mind as ultimately it’s a knowledge spread. My concern here is, most of this free tools are remote machines and there is definately a serurity risk when you want to test interactive web sites. For example we don’t want to publish our sales web site(having senstitive data) to outside virtual computers The solution to this is to use paid tools. Now those paid tools also can give you the snap shot resuls only. What about the pages having reference data from somewhere else. For example your page have search utility and the search results can be anything? How to test the browser compatibity for different kind of results? Now the solution of above problem is to use scripting tools(Test Automation tool) it means Actually we are looking for combination of Automation scripting tool and Browser compatibilty tool where we record the cases and run the scripts with different browser. Again we have an issue that the scipt recorded with IE can not be run in Other browser and vise versa. Any thoughts?

My project is a web based project and it supports for different browsers: IE(6,7,8 & 9) and Mozila Firefox and operating Systems: WinXP, WinVista, Win2003 & Win7.

I am doing compatibility testing manually. This time i have gone through some free tool for this type of testing in the website. It is difficult for me to decide whic his good for our project as i am new to all the tools.

The current approach thatw e employ for the cross browser testing is that, we employ OATS on the test suite and then do the regression testing in just one browser. Then we do just link validation of the application in various other browsers, for which we employ several link checker tools such as the xenu tool.Request your inisghts on the adopted approach.

Hoewer I have a question which is becoming critical for me. The web sites we are using is available for dedicated users only. Means, that you have to be logged on to use the web sites to ba able to use them. How can test this kind of web pages? how can I log in within browser test tools?

Hi i just now started mannual testing in web testing i want to know the what is the career in web testing? is their difference betn software testing & web testing? minimun exp and skills require switch to automation testing. please reply me

Can anyone suggest a good tool that will allow me to do crossbrowser testing and supports mobile testing. I’ve piloted a Sauce and Browserstack but my security team will not allow tunnels. Is there a good software available for purchase/download?

Hi, I think I am a few years late to join the party. Nevertheless you may find our tool webmate interesting if you are looking for cross browser testing tools. We do automated layout testing with side-by-side diff, regression testing between different URLs, and provide direct access to the machines via VNC.

Hi, My project is localisation project and I need to test on browsers Firefox 40.0.2 Chrome Version 44.0.2403.157 m Internet Explorer IE 11 on windows 7 os. and also on mobiles Samsung Galaxy Note 3 4.4.2 iPhone TBA Sony Z3 Compact 5.1.1 can you please help what tool can I use to do crossbrowser testing. I am planning selenium webdriver. Is this good to test everything that is needed by me. I am new to selenium and learning now.

I am looking for a tool that can execute the test cases in multiple browsers simultaneously. I know browserstack provides browsers but can’t execute the test cases simultaneously, can someone please let me know if they have used any such tools?

Imperative from both expert & learner point of view. There are many client components that can yield different results based on the web browser they are run in, such as Applets, JavaScript, Flash, AJAX requests, and the list goes on. For anyone who desires to have a professional looking website or application, Cross Browser Testing is essential.